Forester cemetery Lödderitz

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The Förster cemetery Lödderitz is outside the village Lödderitz on the forging Burg, a former Slavic fortress , landscaped Waldfriedhof in Lödderitzer Forst. It got its name because many forest workers and foresters were buried on it. The forester cemetery is located in the " Middle Elbe between Mulde and Saale " nature reserve .

origin

Panoramic view of the grounds of the Lödderitz forester cemetery

In a letter dated April 10, 1810 “to the Königl. Westphäl. Inspector of the waters and forests, Mr. Freyherr von Stolzenburg Hochwohlgeboren “advocates Oberförster Olberg to provide the community Lödderitz with three-quarters of an acre area for a cemetery. The first use took place around 1820. Until then the dead of the place were buried in neighboring Aken.

Use of the cemetery

Gravestones at the forester's cemetery in Lödderitz

In 1858 a cemetery closer to the village was laid out. After that, only individual burials, mainly of forest workers and foresters, took place in the forester cemetery. The most famous person who was buried there was the painter Ernst Zehle , who was buried there in 1940.

The last burial of a district forester took place in 2005.

The forester's cemetery is listed as a destination in travel guides for the region. Church services are held there on Ascension Day.

The forestry cemetery is maintained by the Dessau forest care office . After the Elbe dike has been relocated , the forester cemetery is located in the floodplain of the Elbe . Therefore the connection to the forester cemetery is at risk.

In August 2018, plans became known to designate a new nature reserve in the area between the Saale and Elbe. The plans originally intended that the forester's cemetery should be located in the core zone and therefore no longer allowed to be entered. As part of the expulsion procedure, the draft ordinance was adapted on the basis of objections from the population. In the ordinance on the "Middle Elbe between Mulde and Saale" nature reserve of December 20, 2018, which finally came into force, the forester cemetery was removed from the core zone of the nature reserve. It is still accessible to visitors via approved paths.

Individual historical graves

  • Wilhelm Ferdinand Nobiling (1786–1822), royal chief forester
  • J. v. Erdmann (1806–1870), royal chief forester
  • Johann Christian Hilger (1780–1860), royal forester
  • Carl Theuerkauf (1827–1882), royal forester
  • Dorothea Müller, innkeeper widow
  • Ernst Zehle (1876–1940), Berlin landscape painter

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heidi Thiemann: Last rest for Förster and «beaver painter» Ernst Zehle . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung Dessau-Roßlau, December 30, 2008
  2. ↑ Thomas Linßner: People are locked out? In: Schönebecker Volksstimme, September 20, 2017
  3. ^ Thomas Höfs: Nature reserve. Citizens see it critically. In: Volksstimme Schönebeck, September 13, 2018
  4. ^ State administration office of Saxony-Anhalt: Middle Elbe nature reserve between Mulde and Saale . Retrieved March 27, 2019 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 55.1 ″  N , 11 ° 59 ′ 14.7 ″  E